Sunday, May 11, 2025
5/11/2025
CMHC Services Implementation in Westfield, MA - River Valley Counseling Center (RVCC) will focus on adults & families with Serious Mental Illness, (SMI), SU Disorders, (SUDs) &/or Cooccurring Disorders (COD) especially those who are disproportionately underserved & affected by the COVID-19 surge & post pandemic periods. The subpopulations to be served at RVCC’s newly established outpatient clinic located in Westfield, MA are people who are Black, Latino(a)s, have English as a second language, Veterans (Vets) & uninsured or underinsured individuals among others. The CMHC Program will provide expanded, quick access to coordinated, comprehensive services for clients who access RVCC’s Holyoke, Chicopee & Westfield outpatient clinics located in Hampden County (HC), Massachusetts. All 3 clinics are within 20 miles of each other & have been declared COVID hot spots by the MA Dept. of Public Health in April, 2021 & have been since the beginning of the pandemic. The goals of the program are to:1. increase RVCC’s staff capacity to provide mental health, physical health & addiction recovery support to all enrolled participants; 2. increase access to and improve the quality of care for behavioral and SU disorder treatment by delivering a comprehensive recovery-oriented care model that reduces avoidable hospital admissions & preventable ED visits; & 3. implement the program evaluation plan to determine whether program goals, objectives & outcomes have been achieved & whether adjustments to programming & workflows are needed. RVCC will establish case management, peer/recovery specialist & SUD specialized clinical services in our newly established Westfield clinic. These services were proposed at both Chicopee & Holyoke clinics as part of RVCC’s CCBHC application in February. The project will be overseen by a Project Director who will work closely with an evaluation team & the Medical Director. RVCC proposes to serve 100 unduplicated individuals in year one & another 100 unduplicated individuals in year two, for a total of 200 unduplicated individuals over the entire project. This CMHC staff will work to further expand services that will help to engage individuals with high risk of SMI/SED/DD and SUD. The following evidence-based treatments will be implemented: Motivational Interviewing (IM) Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Trauma-focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TCBT), Integrated Treatment for Co-occurring Disorders, Dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), Attachment Regulation and Competency (ARC) and Neurofeedback (NF).
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